A display device including a display panel including a flat area including a first display area and a first peripheral area adjacent to the first display area and a bending area including a second display area and a second peripheral area adjacent to the second display area, and an input sensing unit on the display panel. The input sensing unit includes first touch sensors having a mesh shape, extending in a first direction parallel to a bending axis of the bending area, and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, second touch sensors having a mesh shape, extending in the second direction, and arranged in the first direction, first connection electrodes respectively connected to ends of the first touch sensors, second connection electrodes respectively connected to ends of the second touch sensors, and touch signal lines connected to the first connection electrodes and the second connection electrodes.
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1. A display device comprising: a base layer comprising a bending area configured to bend about a bending axis; and a display element layer disposed on the base layer and comprising a plurality of pixels; an encapsulation layer disposed on the display element layer and covering the pixels; a plurality of touch sensors disposed on the encapsulation layer, each of the touch sensors comprising a plurality of conductive patterns having a mesh shape; and a plurality of signal lines respectively connected to the touch sensors, and wherein: the conductive patterns comprise a plurality of mesh lines defining a plurality of mesh openings; and inner lines of four of the mesh lines connected to each other and defining one of the mesh openings are inclined with respect to the bending axis.
2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of four of the mesh lines has a width which is variable according to a direction in which the bending axis extends.
3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein each of the mesh openings has more than five vertexes.
4. The display device of claim 3 , wherein two of the mesh openings adjacent to each other have different shapes from each other.
5. The display device of claim 1 , wherein signal lines disposed on the bending area among the signal lines comprise inclined portions with respect to the banding axis.
6. The display device of claim 5 , wherein the signal lines disposed on the bending area have, the farther from the touch sensors, the more inclined portions.
7. The display device of claim 1 , further comprising a connection electrode disposed between the signal line and the conductive pattern, and the connection electrode is connected to the mesh lines, wherein the connection electrode comprises an edge inclined with respect to the bending axis.
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